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Jean Charles de Meneze was wrongly suspected of being a violent aft the 7 July bombings
A elder firearms serviceman who changeable dormant a antheral wrongly suspected of being a violent 19 years agone is to talk publically for the archetypal clip successful a caller documentary.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was pinned down and changeable successful the caput by officers successful Stockwell presumption successful southbound London connected 22 July 2005, pursuing the 7 July bombings.
The constabulary marksman is to look connected Channel 4's Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube aft remaining anonymous since the killing.
Alison Pomeroy, caput of documentaries astatine the channel, said she hoped his idiosyncratic grounds would "help the British nationalist understand... what became 1 of the biggest crises successful British policing history".
She added that the interrogation would besides assistance radical to recognize "the complexity of the ambiance successful London that summer".
Mr de Menezes, an electrician from Brazil, was followed and changeable 7 times successful the caput and erstwhile successful the enarthrosis astatine Stockwell Underground presumption by 2 constabulary marksman who mistook him for a termination bomber.
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In 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service decided that nary constabulary officers should beryllium prosecuted implicit Mr de Menezes' killing
The incidental followed heightened tensions a fortnight aft the London bombings - in which 4 termination bombers killed 52 people.
The time earlier Mr de Menezes was killed by police, would-be termination bombers targeted the London transport web again, but their devices failed to explode.
Scotland Yard confirmed Mr de Menezes was not connected to the attacks the time aft his death.
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CCTV footage has antecedently shown the past moments of Mr de Menezes' beingness arsenic helium travelled towards Stockwell Tube presumption successful southbound London
The documentary volition look astatine the marksman's “understanding of the relation of the constabulary arsenic ‘goodies vs baddies’” and “the unit of being astatine the centre of 1 of the astir arguable moments successful the past of British policing”.
In 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service decided that nary constabulary officers should beryllium prosecuted implicit Mr de Menezes' killing, but the Metropolitan Police was fined £175,000 with £385,000 costs aft being recovered blameworthy of endangering the public.
The documentary volition aerial connected 10 and 11 November.
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